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Professor Brian Cox on the International Space Station being a hoax (yes, that's a thing) (Original Post) progressoid Mar 2016 OP
There is a magical tube. If you look through it, far objects appear near. It's a telescope. DetlefK Mar 2016 #1
I won't believe it until I can smell it through a Smelloscope progressoid Mar 2016 #2
You would need to know beforehand what the ISS smells like. DetlefK Mar 2016 #3
I wonder about the flatulence issue. progressoid Mar 2016 #6
If they're faking it, they're doing a damned good job. eppur_se_muova Mar 2016 #4
Exactly, even ameteur astronomers are getting photos of it. progressoid Mar 2016 #5
They're in on it! drm604 Mar 2016 #7
Oh my dog. You're right! progressoid Mar 2016 #8
Sadly, there really are people who think like that. drm604 Mar 2016 #9
Oy! Canadian Interloper Mar 2016 #10
Welcome Canadian Interloper! progressoid Mar 2016 #11
Thank you! Canadian Interloper Mar 2016 #12
They're like this guy, who had his bell rung by Buzz Aldrin. Archae Mar 2016 #13

DetlefK

(16,455 posts)
3. You would need to know beforehand what the ISS smells like.
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 11:42 AM
Mar 2016

A closed environment... where as little water as possible is used... and whose inhabitants MUST engage in sports on a daily basis.

progressoid

(50,743 posts)
6. I wonder about the flatulence issue.
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 01:42 PM
Mar 2016

Retired astronaut answers amazing questions about space

Q: Do you fart more or less in space?

A: More - because it's impossible to burp when weightless (the gas, liquid and solid in your stomach all mix together).

Q: Would farting push you far enough to get unstuck?

A: We all tried it - too muffled, not the right type of propulsive nozzle


http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/retired-astronaut-answers-amazing-questions-about-space/story-fnjwlcze-1226776314758

progressoid

(50,743 posts)
5. Exactly, even ameteur astronomers are getting photos of it.
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 01:18 PM
Mar 2016


Amateur astrophotographer Dylan O'Donnell took the stunning photo on June 30 from Byron Bay in New South Wales, Australia, using a Canon 70D camera attached to the rear cell of a Celestron 9.25-inch (235-millimeter) telescope.

O'Donnell received an alert for the precise to-the-second timing of the space station's flyover online. He'd been waiting for a year for such an opportunity, O'Donnell wrote on his website.

"If you think that it might be a case of sitting there with your camera and a clock, with one hand on the shutter release, you’d be absolutely correct!" O'Donnell wrote. "The ISS only passed over the moon for 0.33 seconds as it shoots by quite quickly. Knowing the second it would pass, I fired a 'burst' mode of exposures, then crossed my fingers and hoped it would show up in review — and it did!

- See more at: http://www.space.com/29889-space-station-crosses-moon-photo.html#sthash.A07FUVaC.dpuf

drm604

(16,230 posts)
9. Sadly, there really are people who think like that.
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 04:51 PM
Mar 2016

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They think that anyone who produces proof must obviously be part of the conspiracy. It never crosses their minds that it would be impossible to keep a lid on a conspiracy that involves so many people.

Archae

(46,797 posts)
13. They're like this guy, who had his bell rung by Buzz Aldrin.
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 12:29 PM
Mar 2016


You see, us humans can't even tie our own shoes, unless "ancient astronauts" tell us how, the Earth itself is flat and NASA is infested with Satan-worshippers, and any and every natural or human-caused disaster is part of the "Illuminati/Jews/communists/whatever grand conspiracy to rule the world."
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